Patch 6.1 Updates

New racing game with achievements and rewards! The race for March 2015 is Darkmoon Racer Roadhog which rewards Fire-Eater's Vial if you complete it quickly. More race tracks and racing mounts will unlock in April, May, and June for a total of seven additional achievement series/rewards.

Getting to the Faire

Mystic Mages in all major capital cities will port you to the Faire's old locations, Goldshire or Mulgore, for . Step through the portal to be taken to the completely new island and ride a bit through the woods before discovering the Faire at the bottom of the hill.

Faire Layout and Map

Players reach the Faire from portals in Elwynn and Mulgore. Upon zoning onto Darkmoon Island, players will ride through a short winding path before the Faire's main street is visible at the bottom of the hill. Wild battle pets and some other fun attractions are scattered around the island as well. Warlords additions are in blue.

Faire Favors (Profession Quests)

Players can complete six profession quests per month: two for primary professions, and four for secondary professions. Completing six quests rewards Faire Favors. If you complete all six quests, you will get 0 Darkmoon Prize Ticket and Faire Favors.

It is possible to switch professions mid-Faire and pick up additional quests. You must have skill level 75+ to pick up these quests.

Look at me, now look at my horse, now look back at me, are I not the most impressive battler of pets that you have ever seen?

Look now at my compatriot over there. Is he on a horse? Of course not! Is his hat made of fireworks? Not in a million years! Everything about me is more impressive, from my coat color to my last name, which I made myself.

Dare you step up to the might of Christoph Willikens Dennis Ragnaros VonFeasel the First?

Completing Brood of Alysrazor rewards Blazing Wings. This is an account-wide toy which gives your character the appearance of fiery wings for an hour! Cataclysm raiders may note similarities to the Alysrazor.

In addition to the achievements and toys associated with the games above, completing each daily game quest rewards a Darkmoon Game Prize. It can always contain one Darkmoon Prize Ticket, as well as a small chance at the following items:

In this race, you have to hit a blue, green, and red post, and then return to the Starting area. You can speed up your progress several ways.

Pick up sprint boosts, which also let you walk on water (useful for reaching the blue post faster).

Jump on bouncy gears to leap forward--make sure you are angled the right way so you don't go off in the wrong direction.

Use the special Jump To Banner button, on a 10 second cooldown, to leap to the nearest banner and be immune to electrical wires for a few seconds.

Avoid the electrical wires which stun you.

Your time is measured in "tolls"--the fewer you have, the better. There are four toll segments: from start to blue, blue to green, green to red, and red to finish. Each toll segment is added up for your final toll time.

Race Unlock Schedule

Each month, more races and rewards are available. There are achievements for completing the Real Race and Real Big Race on one of four special racing mounts, which all reward cool things (show below). In March 2015, only the Racing Strider for the Real Race is available.

In addition, these races are good sources of achievement points as there are numerous achievements for completing the races at different speeds. There are 170 achievement points total from racing achievements.Return to Table of Contents

Collections Tab

The Darkmoon Faire is a great source of items that count towards all four collections--battle pets, mounts, heirlooms, and toys.

Battle Pets

There are 15 pets total you can collect from the Darkmoon Faire: seven for 0 Darkmoon Prize Ticket each, two from pet tamers, two from wild pet battles, two from world bosses, one from fishing, one from questing. One from achievements will be added in April 2015, for 16 total.

Heirlooms

Heirlooms are a new type of collection in Patch 6.1. This collection stores your heirlooms in a central account-wide tab so you do not need to mail heirlooms between characters.

Heirlooms purchased from the Darkmoon Faire after 6.1 scale from 1-60. A total of 29 Heirlooms can be purchased from Daenrand Dawncrest, although you will probably buy most of these heirlooms from other vendors that have easier currency requirements.

Replica Dungeon Set 1 and 2 Transmog

Players can also purchase replica Dungeon Set 1 and 2 sets from Barum and Baruma--for newer players, these sets were very time-consuming to get in vanilla WoW and have iconic looks. A full set takes 0 Darkmoon Prize Ticket to purchase.

These sets are not class-specific, meaning that you can resemble other classes of your armor type--for example, a Warlock can wear a set with Priest-themed designs. They are also BoE and can be sold on the AH.

Click on the sets below to open up their transmog set database page, which allows you to see all items that belong to the set, their sources, and user comments on matching capes and weapons.

Buffs

The Darkmoon Faire has several ways for you to get experience and reputation buffs, as well as a stat buff.

Experience and Reputation

There are two ways to get a 10% experience and reputation buff for an hour--hats and the Darkmoon Carousel. These buffs make grinding Warlords of Draenor reputations very easy and the experience helps with pet battle XP! They do not stack with each other, but the reputation gains do stack with the 20% reputation gain from Trading Post Level 3.

When you use the item, you initially summon a bunch of fireworks. For the duration of the buff, your character will appear to wear a fun purple hat. This hat periodically sparkles and has small fireworks. It stacks up to 20, so you can keep some on you when your buff runs out. The hat cannot be used when the Faire is not in session.

The Darkmoon Carousel features festive seats decorated like gryphons and murlocs, as well as some neat music. It is located towards the entrance of the Faire, right beyond the Whack-a-Mole and Cannon games.

When you hop into a seat, you're given the 5 minute buff WHEE! which increases all experience and reputation gained by 10%. If you stay on the carousel and don't get dizzy, that buff will eventually increase to 60 minutes.

If you ask Sayge for your written fortune, he will give you Darkmoon Faire Fortune which contains one of twenty-nine funny sayings--see all of them via the Contains tab on the linked page. #23, #25, and #27 send you on low-level incidental quests as well.Return to Table of Contents

Professions

In addition to the profession quests for skillups, fishing and inscription have additional benefits from the Faire.

Fishing

Fishing off the shores of Darkmoon Island has some unique rewards.

Players have a chance to get Sea Pony, a pet in a cute bubble, from the southern coast.

Darkmoon Fishing Cap increases your fishing skill by +5 and looks very amusing! When the Darkmoon Faire is active, it can summon a pool of Shipwrecked Debris, which can contain a Sealed Crate.

Inscription: Joker Cards and Trinkets

The Darkmoon Faire is associated with epic trinket decks players obtain by collecting a full eight-piece deck of cards. In earlier times, these cards were simply world drops, but from Cataclysm onwards, scribes were able to craft these BoE cards.

Deathmatch Pavilion: Darkmoon Dominator

Korgol Crushskull presides over this large-scale arena event. Similar to the Gurubashi Arena, every 3 hours players compete to loot a spawned chest. The match until the first person loots the chest and players of the same faction that are not grouped up also appear hostile to each other.

Rona Greenteeth and Ghosts

Rona Greenteeth is an Undead vendor off by herself to the west of the Faire. It soon becomes clear why she's isolated. Rona sells a number of consumables that appear to be made from the flesh of unlucky Faire Carnies:

Achievements

A total of 365 points can be earned from Darkmoon Faire achievements. While there is no meta-achievement and reward, several achievements do unlock toy and vanity rewards.

Blastenheimer BullseyeScore a bullseye when launched from the Darkmoon Cannon.This achievement may take a few tries to get due to latency and luck. Pick up The Humanoid Cannonball, Fire yourself out of the cannon, fly over the Faire, turn your buff off when you are close to the boardwalk, and hope you land in the middle of the circle at the edge of the water. Hit spacebar to jump if it doesn't register. If you fail, speak to Teleportologist Fozlebub on the shore for a quick teleport back to the cannon.

Darkmoon DominatorWin the Darkmoon Deathmatch twelve times and receive a Master Pit Fighter trinket.The Darkmoon Deathmatch activates every 3 hours, starting at midnight server time. This is a free-for-all bloodbath where everyone not in your party, including members of the same faction, is hostile. Keep bag space handy as you will have 12 Pit Fighter needed for Master Pit Fighter. Darkmoon Duelist is also an earlier step in this achievement chain to just loot one.

Fairegoer's FeastConsume one of every Darkmoon food and drink. This requires you to drink and eat 18 things unique to the Darkmoon Faire. Stamp Thunderhorn sells 10 food items and Sylannia sells 8 drinks. Several of these items are also found in Sealed Crates from fishing, but it's easier just to buy them from the vendors.

I Was Promised a PonyRide a Darkmoon Pony. Head to the Petting Zoo by the boardwalk at 57, 82. Walk past the zoo (away from the main road) and the ponies will be in a pen off to the southeastern part of your map. Click on the pony to mount it.

Quick ShotScore a Quick Shot at the Shooting Gallery. Start by aiming at the middle target, and pivot to the left or right targets (depending on where the green target arrow is) while shooting. You can get two hits before the arrow fades away. Or, you can just pick one target and keep shooting at it quickly--at some point, the target marker will land on the target you're firing at.

Step Right UpPlay five different Darkmoon games. This achievement requires you to play the five games in the "Daily Quest Games" section except Blazing Wings.

6.1 Achievements6.1 added many new achievements. New racing tracks and mounts unlock each month, so not all achievements can be completed in 2015.

Ace Tonk CommanderScore 45 hits in one session of the Tonk Challenge.Pick up Tonk Commander and shoot at as many targets as possible. When more people play the game at the same time, more targets are visible even though you do not see the players. Rewards Darkmoon Tonk Controller.

Darkmoon Like the WindStay aloft with the Wanderluster's Glider for more than 10 seconds.Available in the future!

Triumphant Turtle TossingSuccessfully toss 10 rings onto Dubenko the Darkmoon Turtle in one session of the Ring Toss.Throw the rings when the turtle walks back into the center. The turtle's pathing has changed from previous patches--it wanders off to an edge and then wanders back to the same central point. Rewards Darkmoon Ring-Flinger and can be done with Target: Turtle.

Real Big Race AcheivementsComplete The Real Big Race within 20 tolls.There are achievement series for completing Big Race achievements on each of the four mounts.

Real Race AchievementsComplete the Real Race within 11 tolls.Head over to the boardwalk by Level90ETC where you are prompted to go on the race. There are achievement series for completing Real Race achievements on each of the four mounts. Only the Tallstrider mount is active this Darkmoon Faire, the rest will be available in future months.

Comments

Comment by ceejai

on 2012-12-03T14:45:52-06:00

So, the part about the ghosts is really cool. I have said since Darkmoon Island has existed that something....dark is going on there. If you go out to the beach on the west side of the island and look up towards the center, you can see the 'Dark Mist' rising out of the center of the island. Also, on that side of the island is quite possibly the only shipwreck in WoW without ghosts, zombies or revenants around it - if that doesn't scream "weird", I don't know what does!

Good to see they are expanding upon this place and it's mysteries. It's long overdue, even with the Cat overhaul. =0)

Comment by Strangletusk

on 2012-12-03T14:59:47-06:00

...quite possibly the only shipwreck in WoW without ghosts, zombies or revenants around it - if that doesn't scream "weird", I don't know what does!

Sorry to burst your bubble on this, but there are absolutely loads of shipwrecks in WoW without ghosts and etc around them - I'd go as far as to the say that the majority in fact, have nothing 'haunting' them like this.

Comment by Stok3d

on 2012-12-03T15:10:25-06:00

Like all the eye candy you present us in guides perculia, this doesn't fall short of amazing. Thank you!

After getting Exalted and gathering enough tickets for the mounts/pets in Cataclysm, I didn't see much of a reason for returning. Looks like you now changed my mind. :)

Comment by Usury

on 2012-12-03T16:25:45-06:00

Weren't there hats datamined awhile ago? I guess they didn't make it in this round.

Comment by Ruiru

on 2012-12-03T17:05:28-06:00

The Crow can now be captured, it was hotfixed.

Comment by Interest

on 2012-12-03T17:59:35-06:00

So I forgot about the DMF this time...

I'm pro.

Comment by perculia

on 2012-12-03T18:44:02-06:00

There were in fact some datamined hat models in 5.1, but haven't heard anything more. Perhaps 5.2?

Comment by Interest

on 2012-12-04T00:56:53-06:00

Incidentally, I noticed that for Whack-A-Gnoll they now can spawn on top of each other.

Comment by Drojdier

on 2012-12-04T05:56:18-06:00

The achievements table shows "Taking the Show on the Road" twice.

Apart from that, awesome guide, as usual! Thanks!

Comment by kebokaj

on 2012-12-04T07:05:58-06:00

It's a shame that Barum and Baruma still have nothing for Monks....I have all these tickets and nothing to spend them on! maybe next time...

Comment by xaratherus

on 2012-12-04T10:42:47-06:00

Hmm... c'mon Blizzard, give us a classic sci-fi reference: Have the Darkmoon Carousel occasionally go *backwards*, and if you ride it, it turns you into a little kid.

</geek></Something Wicked reference>

Comment by zynder

on 2012-12-04T23:47:14-06:00

Quoth the Article:"The Darkmoon Carousel takes the place of one of those "Under Construction" pavilions from 4.3. It features festive seats decorated like gryphons and murlocs, as well as some neat music."

I'm just being a bit pedantic here but that area where the Carousel is was NOT an "Under Construction" pavilion. It was an empty tonk battleground with busted tonks about the perimeter. I know this because I am an engineer and that is where I fixed my 5 tonks for the quest. Now that the carousel is there, there weren't the 5 I usually repaired (only 2) and I had to go about the fairgrounds finding them. None of the "Under Construction" tents have been changed in any way that I can see.

Comment by zynder

on 2012-12-04T23:50:51-06:00

I think that is a bug. It spawned a baby and a Hogger at the same time. I got the stun and no triple score!

Comment by Interest

on 2012-12-05T01:44:06-06:00

I think that is a bug. It spawned a baby and a Hogger at the same time. I got the stun and no triple score!

It's a feature! =D

Comment by ceejai

on 2012-12-05T12:40:33-06:00

...quite possibly the only shipwreck in WoW without ghosts, zombies or revenants around it - if that doesn't scream "weird", I don't know what does!

Sorry to burst your bubble on this, but there are absolutely loads of shipwrecks in WoW without ghosts and etc around them - I'd go as far as to the say that the majority in fact, have nothing 'haunting' them like this.

Ok, that may have been a slight exaggeration. =0P

Nevertheless, now I am inspired going to go count un-haunted shipwrecks on Azeroth. As a much wiser man said (many times), "Challenge accepted." ;0)

Even if that's correct, one cannot deny there definitely appears to be something sinister going on behind-the-scenes at the Darkmoon Fair. Quite frankly, it reminds me of the fair/carnival/whatever in Pinocchio, where the children were being turned into donkeys by eating the sweets and whatnot. Perhaps the next feature will be a giant raid-boss whale off the coast that we fight from the inside-out?

Comment by CalaelenDT

on 2012-12-05T12:54:19-06:00

The Darkmoon Fair reminds me of the Fair in the HBO serie "Carnivale", the whole creepy mysterious aura surrounding the whole fair and all.

Comment by lavyosa

on 2012-12-05T16:48:37-06:00

The achievements table shows "Taking the Show on the Road" twice.

Apart from that, awesome guide, as usual! Thanks!

Of course it shows it twice.....one for Horde and one for Alliance.... pay better attention

Comment by perculia

on 2012-12-05T17:14:13-06:00

Added a few things to the guide--clarified the carousel's location, put in new sandbox items and Darkmoon P.I.E., described the Tallstrider Loaner which should help out players without mounts.

Comment by ceejai

on 2012-12-05T22:35:05-06:00

The Darkmoon Fair reminds me of the Fair in the HBO serie "Carnivale", the whole creepy mysterious aura surrounding the whole fair and all.

Oh, absolutely! At the very least, Silas was definitely inspired by the character of Samson. That's a no-brainer for anyone who's seen the show.

Comment by Interest

on 2012-12-06T02:24:48-06:00

The Darkmoon Fair reminds me of the Fair in the HBO serie "Carnivale", the whole creepy mysterious aura surrounding the whole fair and all.